Evolving the Thought

People call the field/sea/energy different things – and everyone has come to envision their experience of it in their own way, based in how they have been taught/ how they have chosen for themselves how to see it, experience it, be with it.I am noticing that the way many are looking at it/ interacting with it – no matter what way that is – it is not effective or useful or helpful for that which we say we want to experience.

Why do I say that? Look around at that which you experience everyday. Is it what you say you are choosing? Listen to people speak of their lives, of the world: are they speaking as if they are experiencing a world of their choosing?

Have you consciously addressed that which you are choosing?

WE create our experiences. We create what we call our future. We create everything we are calling our experience. This may sound crazy – it may sound harsh: We Are Making It All Up!

Everything we see around us – what is going on in our families, our communities, our world – WE – each and every single ONE of us – individually and collectively – we have created/ are creating everything we are experiencing. WE ARE MAKING IT ALL UP.

On this planet, in this universe, using physical bodies, or not using physical bodies: WE EACH/ WE ALL ARE RESPONSIBLE for what we are experiencing.

And if we are not LOVING it, if we are not IN JOY with it, if it is not what we say we are choosing, what we would choose — then it is time to look anew at what we are DOING, and how we are BEING –> and Choose Anew!

 

The Change I Seek

It does the WORLD no good, if I perpetuate hate, aggitation and hurtfulness.

If I say I want to live i n a world of peace, love and joy – yet what I think, say and do are hurtful, mean, hateful or judgmental – then *I* am the one *denying* the world of the peace and love and joy I say I want.  *I* am the one *creating* strife, pain and hatred.

Nothing changes until I recognize that and I change HOW I AM BEing in the world.

An important piece (the only real piece?) of my role in peace, is how I am being, with my self.  If I realize I am being harsh or unkind towards someone or something, then remember I am choosing peace, I can choose what to do, next. I can celebrate joyfully that I reminded myself, and move forward in peace again. But if I go about harshly judging myself, thinking hurtful thoughts about myself for being harsh on someone else — then I am STILL not being peace!

What I think to myself, what I think OF myself, MATTERS!  It is the very basis of how I go on to treat and be with others – individually and collectively.

If I think hateful or hurtful thoughts of myself, when I say “I Love You” – what is that idea/ understanding of Love based in/ on??

If my basic, most innermost perspective is hurt-filled or hate-full, then how loving can my experiences and my expressions be? All of my experiences and expressions (thoughts, words, actions, the energy I exude, my emotions) – they will always be FRAMED by the hurt and the hate.

If I want to see LOVE in the world – I must be Love, be loving with my self.

*THIS* is Being the Change I seek in the world.

You know the song that goes “Let There Be PEACE on Earth – And Let it Begin With ME?”

Well guess what? Peace DOES begin with me: Each “me” of us “we,” here!!

When I find myself with an angry or frustrated thought about why can’t this world be a more peaceful, loving, joyful place – woops! I realize that *MY* angry frustration is adding to what I say I do not want – and preventing the experience I say I am choosing.

There are event and situation that occur, that, well, simply, suck.  The invitation, as I see it, is to show up to those events, IN PEACE. IN LOVE. is it crazy? IN JOY.

Because HOW we are being in the midst of horrible events, can add to the horribleness – OR – shift the experience towards LOVE.

I choose LOVE.

Anybody with me?